Urban Bottoms in Six Global Cities

Inequality, Informality, and Struggles Over Externalization

410 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book focuses on the urban bottom, particularly the very bottom people, in six global cities: Tokyo, New York, Paris, Nairobi, Mexico City, and Manila. Urban bottom is a hierarchical concept that captures urban populations systematically bottomized under neoliberal capitalism. Using urban bottom as its key analytical concept, the book examines the labor, everyday lives, social networks, mobility, and lifeworlds of these populations, including female workers, young people, immigrants, sex workers, slum residents, street vendors, homeless individuals, and welfare recipients. It explores how they struggle to survive amid informal and unstable living conditions, and offers a typological analysis that reveals similarities and differences across cities.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9789004764873
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.10.2026
• Größe: 235 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Brill
• Herausgegeben von: Hideo Aoki, Motoji Matsuda